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According to the United Nations, "World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about taking action to tackle the water crisis." However, the crisis reflects the nature of capitalism itself, which turns all of the earth's resources into articles of trade for benefit of major corporations and profiteers.
The weight of the crisis, however, has consistently fallen on the shoulders of the world's oppressed, throughout the globe — from Indigenous territories displaced by extractivist policies to impoverished neighborhoods suffering floods and contaminated water.
teleSUR takes a look at some of our past and present multimedia coverage of the crisis being tackled by struggling communities around the world fighting for their survival.
Water Wars? Experts Urge Rethinking Our Relationship with Water
Humans are quickly depleting water at higher rate than nature can replenish, transforming it into both a catalyst and a weapon during wars and conflicts. READ MORE
Standing Rock Tribal Leader Stresses Unity in DAPL Resistance
The tribal leader of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe stressed the importance of a united opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. READ MORE
San Francisco Votes to Divest $1.2 Billion from Dakota Access
The city became the fifth in the U.S. to divest from companies and banks that are involved in the oil project. READ MORE
Reclaiming Water: Chilean Fight Against US Dam Project Heats Up
A years-long, high-stakes fight against an embattled U.S. hydroelectric dam in Chile has taken a small but important step in the campaign to halt the project that jeopardizes the water supply for some 7 million people living in and around the capital city of Santiago. READ MORE
5 Water Warriors Defending Rights from North Dakota to Chile
Activists and environmentalists lead the struggle to protect water sources across the planet, from the top of the continents of the Americas in Alaska all the way down to Argentina. READ MORE
El Salvador Water Warriors Fight Corporate Greed to Win Rights
El Salvador faces a water scarcity emergency, and yet proposals by water rights defenders have been blocked for years by corporate interests. READ MORE
Trump's BLM May Lease 700,000 Acres of California for Drilling
California may lease out 700,000 acres of land across the state to exploit oil resources that the Bureau of Land Management has repeatedly failed to sell in the past. READ MORE
Shell's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and the Limits of Capitalism
Simply put: Capitalism is the problem. READ MORE
More Than Half of Mexican Rivers Severely Contaminated: Report
Sixty percent of the 51 main rivers of Mexico — or 35 of them — are heavily polluted, according to the 2016 Atlas of Water carried out by the National Commission of Water. The rivers Balsas, Santiago, Panuco, Grijalva-Usumacinta, Turbio, Papaloapan, Coatzacoalcos and Tonala are among the most contaminated, the study found. READ MORE
Overheated Arctic Sign of Climate Change 'Vicious Circle'
Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016 — some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 million sq. miles) — on Sept. 16. READ MORE
Drought Crisis Shows Mother Earth Is Thirsty and Bolivians Are Suffering
For World Water Day, teleSUR delves deeper into the current crisis and looks at how access to water in Bolivia has long been a political, social and economic battle and is increasingly wrought with environmental challenges brought on by climate change.READ MORE
Gaza's Water Crisis Is Causing Irreversible Damage: World Bank
The water crisis in Gaza has become so heightened that the United Nations' 2014 prediction that the region will become uninhabitable by 2020 stands to be true, according to a report released by the World Bank. READ MORE
How the Fight for Water Unites Palestine and Dakota
From our demand for just rights, the pursuit of sovereignty, and a long history of resistance, we walk a joint path to liberation. READ MORE
Jody Gaskin from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, takes part in a protest rally at the White House against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. | Photo Reuters
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Demonstrators carry signs reading | Photo Reuters
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A view of the dried Ajuan Khota dam, a water reserve affected by drought near La Paz, Bolivia, November 17, 2016. | Photo Reuters
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Palestinian children collect water in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, during the 2014 Israeli Invasion. | Photo Reuters
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Children have been worst hit by severe water shortages on La Guajira peninsula. | Photo Las2orillas.co
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